The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-30
OVER THE STATE.

Rev DR.. Pickett, of the p Il. Church at
Sykesvile, died on Sunday last, aged 90 years.
Capt Lewis NJ. Zimmerman, of Frederick, has
leased the old Green House, at 522 west Lexing-
ton street, Baltimore.
MIR. Louis McMurry, the extensive Frederick
county Gamer, expects to pack 1000 900 cans of
sugar corn this season.
Robert B. Sothoron, of St. Mary's county, has
been appointed o gauger in the Internal Revenue
Department by the Secretary of the Treasury.
by the will of the late David L. Morrison j.,
who died in Washington recently, the Presbyterian
church at Emmitsburg received bequest of $500.
-Messrs. Baron Co., of Baltimore, started q
cigar factory at Manchester, Carroll county, on
Monday last. They will work upwards of forty
hands.
During the Hagerstown encampment the col
ored military companies of the State will hold an
encampment at Frederick City, if suitable accom-
modations can be had.
-Octavius A. Ebert, of Ellicott City, died Sun
day last, aged 55 years. leaving wife, three sons
and daughter. He was formerly engaged in
business in Baltimore.
The contract has been let for the construction
of a turnpike from Hagerstown to Downsvile.-
The distance is seven miles and the width of the
road bed is to be twenty-one feet.
The Anne Arundel County Agricultural Soce-
ty will hold three days fair at Galesvie some
time is September. The Maryland Steamboat
tinuance of the exhibition.
The Hagerstown postoffce now ranks next to
Baltimore in the volume of business transacted,
and free delivery will be established as soon as the
houses are all numbered and the names of the
streets are placed on the lamp posts.
Col. William McKenney, of Queen Anne's
county, the most extensive farmer in Maryland,
expects to thresh about 10000 bushels of wheat,
the result of his late harvest The yield of wheat
in that county is said to have been from twenty
five to forty bushels per acre.
The dates of the fairs, with the amount of
premiums offered by each, in the Pen Mar Trot-
ting Circuit, are as follows: Lancaster, August 80
to September 2, $1,50O; Lebanon, September IA
600; Carlisle, September % to go, $1,725; York,
October to Z, $500; Frederick, October II to
IA, $4,000.
The Lutheran Reunion at Pen Mar this sea-
son promises to be even larger than that of last
year. 1t will be held on the 9th and 9TH of Sep
TENDER. The facilities for handling the large
crowds and numerous trains have been greatly
improved, and the vast crowd may expect to be
landed on the grounds on schedule time and with
out experiencing the jam they did last year.
The Rev. 1. W. Sheath, professor of Greek
and German at Lebanon Valley College, Pa, has
forwarded his resignation. The Professor is an
alumnus of the college, of the class of 81 also
graduate of the Yale Divinity School, where he
ranked high in scholarship. He was called to his
place in the college in 1856 from the city of al
timore, where he was serving successful pastor
ate. He will re.enter the pulpit.
The encampment of the Maryland National
Guards August End to Sth, at Hagerstown, promi-
ses to be an event in the local history of the
Guard, and elaborate preparations are being made
to render the first encampment great success
Fully 1000 men are expected to be in camp from
all portions of the State. Regimental and brigade
drills and inspection, guard mount, dress parade
and other beautiful and impressive military cere-
monies and scenes of camp life will be portrayed
each day, and during the evening grand out
door concert will be given by the military band